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l zi 1 lans!!! PETERS oo., Fuero-umn., wAsmNoYan UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH M. SIMONEAU, OF WARE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO EDWARD P. MORSE AND HENRY C. DAVIS, OF SAME PLACE.

LEASING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 495,436, dated April 11, 1893.

Application filed May 19, 1892. `Serial No. 433.556. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH M. SIMONEAU, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ware, in the county of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts,have invented new and useful Improvements in Leasing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in leasing devices for warp dressers or slashers, and the improvements especially pertain to the construction of a leasing reed whereby the single reed becomes entirely available for forming the lease, permitting also the layingin of the yarns, and practically preventing the liability, during the lease-forming operation of any of the yarns slipping out along the length of, and between, the reed rods, the latter, moreover, having a very desirable flexibility to permit more readily the aforementioned laying-in of the yarns, and also to permit, in the run of the yarns through thereed, the passage of any lumps or knots which may be in the yarn.

In the accompanying drawingsz--Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view ot' the leasing mechanism indicated as in operative proximity to a slasher. Fig. 2 is a section taken at right angles to Fig. 2, on the plane 2 2, Fig. l, showing the leasing reed in full face View. Figs. 3 and 4 are perspective views of single reed rods, series thereof in alternating arrangement, and inclosed by a frame, constituting the improved reed. Figs. 5 to 9 are views in illustration of the utilization of the improved device for the production of the lease.

The reed, A, of the invention consists of a series of reed-rods suitably supported in parallelism, having the spaces between them adapted to be entered by the yarns from the top of the reed, and each alternate rod, a, having at its upper end a laterally extended block, or member, a2, with its top upwardly inclined as at 0c, and the relatively interlnediate rods, 1),' having laterally extended members or blocks, b2 at their extremities, the upper portions of which are also inclined as at and the lower portions, h3, of which are extended a considerable distance below the bottoms of 5o the aforementioned blocks, a2, said reed rods,

b, having intermediate of their length, yarn 'engaging abutments or filling-in blocks, b4.

The reed is bordered on three of its sides by a frame, d, and has at its top a movable cap, f, which is of inverted trough shape and is or displacement of the rods in directions laty erally of the general plane of the reed. The yarns, 2, may be laid in between the reed rods on the raising of the cap, f, they then ranging through the reed on a level which is between the tops of the said intermediate blocks, b4, and the bottoms of lthe extended portions, b3, and after the laying-in the cap is restored to its place.

0n desiring to secure the decussative arrangement of the yarns for the making of the lease, such may be performed by first raising the leasing reed when every other yarn will, by the intermediate members, b, be elevated above the run or normal level of the yarns as seen in Figs. 6 and 7, when a rod, as o, or a cord, may be inserted between the elevated and normal yarns; the reed is then lowered as seen in Figs. 8 and 9, the lower portions, b3, of the alternating members passing below the normal level of the run'of the yarns, and carrying those which had been previously raised below said level, completing the decussation when the second lease rod, as w, may be inserted until the lease may be finally completed by cord or other suitable retaining devlce.

During the latter described step of the leasing operation, that is, the depression of the reed, the shorter blocks or members, a2, become of unusual advantage, for they prevent the spreading of the reed rods, the one from the other, so that the yarns, which should be carried down by the longer blocks, b2, are prevented from slipping through and upwardly relatively to the sides of the longer blocks, and at the same time,-their lower surfaces being suficiently higher than the lower surfaces. of the said longer blocks,-present no obstacle to the reeds falling in the Suitable extent for completing the lease.

Another method of making a lease by the employment of the improved reed consists in maintaining the reed in a fixed position and first raising all of the yarns, at portions thereof somewhat removed from the reed, half of the yarns engaging and being limitedin their upward inclination by the downwardly extended abutment portions, 53, while the other half of the yarns are ranged in a diiferentinclined plane or shed, as permitted by the higher disposition of the members, a2, which latter at this period prevent the said most ele- Vated yarns from drawing out through and between the upper extremities of the rods; the half lease having now been secured in the usual manner, the yarns next have their portions which were formerly elevated, carried downwardlyin a plane downwardly inclining from their normal plane of run through the reed, half thereof being prevented from having the maximum downward inclination by the alternate abutment members, b4, while the other half of the yarns, assuming a different inclination relative to the aforementioned obstructed half, complete the decussative arrangement required for the lease.

I claim- A leasing reed consisting of a series of suitably supported parallel reed-rods each at its end farthest from its place of support being free `and disconnected from the next, but supported thereagainst by an offset reed-rod member, the alternate spaces between the reedrods having therein intermediate of their lengths abutment pieces, b4, and certain of said rods having projected therefrom in the said alternate spaces near the free ends of the rods, abutment members which have their lower surfaces farther from the free ends of the rods than the lower surfaces of those offset members which are extended across the relatively intermediate spaces, and a reed-cap having steadying portions which lie at oppositesides of the plane of the reed, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

JOSEPH M. SIMONEA.

Witnesses:

EDWARD P. MORSE, HENRY C. DAVIS. 

